physician

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A person licensed to practice medicine; a medical doctor.

n. A person who practices general medicine as distinct from surgery.

n. A person who heals or exerts a healing influence.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A practitioner of physic, i.e. a specialist in internal medicine, especially as opposed to a surgeon; a practitioner who treats with medication rather than with surgery.

n. A medical doctor trained in human medicine.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one duty authorized to prescribe remedies for, and treat, diseases; a doctor of medicine.

n. Hence, figuratively, one who ministers to moral diseases.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. One who practises the art of healing disease and of preserving health; a prescriber of remedies for sickness and disease; specifically, a person licensed by some competent authority, such as a medical college, to treat diseases and pre scribe remedies for them; a doctor; a medical man.

n. A student of physics; a naturalist; a physicist; specifically, in medieval universities, a student of the Aristotelian physics.

"Two years ago we began looking around the country for what we call physician-scientists - physicians who are also experts in science and research - particularly in the area of cancer because we already had a good base of cancer research," Berk said.

Every minister of religion authorized to preach according to the rules of his church, and who, at the passage of this act, shall be regularly employed in the discharge of his ministerial duties; superintendents and physicians of asylums for the deaf, dumb and blind and of the insane; one editor for each newspaper being published at the time of the passage of this act, and such employees as said editor may certify on oath to be indispensable to the publication of such newspaper; the public printer of the confederate and state governments, and such journeymen printers as the said public printer shall certify on oath to be indispensable to perform the public printing; one skilled apothecary in each apothecary store, who was doing business as such apothecary on the tenth day of October 1862, and has continued said business without intermission since that period; all physicians over the age of thirty years who now are, and for the last seven years have been in the actual and regular practice of their profession; but the term physician shall not include dentists.